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    The Turnip Winter (German: Steckrübenwinter) of 1916 to 1917 was a period of profound civilian hardship in Germany during World War I. For the duration...
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    The turnip or white turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, fleshy taproot...
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    Rutabaga (redirect from Swedish turnip)
    (which also includes rapeseed). Other names include Swedish turnip, neep (Scots), and turnip (Scottish and Canadian English, Irish English and Manx English...
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  • severe food shortages in the cities, especially in the winter of 1916–17, known as the Turnip Winter. At the end of the war, Germany's defeat and widespread...
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  • word "turnip" can refer to any of the following four vegetables: Turnip (white turnip, summer turnip, Brassica rapa rapa) Rutabaga (yellow turnip, Brassica...
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    Şalgam or şalgam suyu (Turkish pronunciation: [ʃal̴ˈɡam (suˈju)]; lit. "turnip (juice)"), pronounced "shal-gam", is a popular Turkish traditional fermented...
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    also called celery root, knob celery, and turnip-rooted celery (although it is not a close relative of the turnip), is a group of cultivars of Apium graveolens...
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    herbal for famine foods Peasant foods Staple food Taboo food and drink Turnip Winter Abbott, Isabella Aiona (1992). Lā'au Hawai'i: traditional Hawaiian uses...
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    summer of 1918 saw both the drop in food supplied to the levels of the 'turnip winter', and the onset of the 1918 flu pandemic that killed at least 20 million...
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    shortages of coal, and the British blockade. The winter of 1916–1917 was known as the "turnip winter", because the people had to survive on a vegetable...
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